When El Lissitzky met the punk rockers downtown
As detailed in REASONS, Barney Bubbles’ 1977 sleeve for punk band Generation X’s debut single Your Generation was a key inspiration for a new wave of young designers applying the principles of the...
View ArticleWreckless Eric: No Piccadilly menial
Wreckless Eric is one of British pop’s great survivors, blessed with an ever-growing arsenal of superb, idiosyncratic songs which have seen him outlast most of the class of 77. 7in sleeve, laminated...
View ArticleKosmo Vinyl on Barney Bubbles + Ian Dury
Kosmo Vinyl has sent this photograph taken of himself with Barney Bubbles (centre) and an unidentified person (right)* in the west London offices of Stiff Records in 1977. “I have no idea what we are...
View ArticleBarney Bubbles: The Smash Hits interview
Thanks are due to the indefatigable Brian McCloskey for turning up this little-known interview given by Barney Bubbles to journalist Johnny Black for an early 80s Smash Hits feature on the fledgling...
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